Fedor von Zobeltitz

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Robert Balcke : Portrait of the writer Fedor von Zobeltitz (around 1906)
Fedor von Zobeltitz in his library (Spiegelberg)
First bookplate Fedor von Zobeltitz
Second bookplate Fedor von Zobeltitz

Fedor Karl Maria Hermann August von Zobeltitz (born October 5, 1857 at Gut Spiegelberg , Brandenburg province , † February 10, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German writer , journalist and bibliophile .

Life

Zobeltitz was the son of the landowner Karl Konstantin von Zobeltitz (1823–1885) and his wife Bertha Emilie, née Knibbe (1828–1888), a pharmacist's daughter from Torgau. He came from the Saxon noble family Zobeltitz . After his first lessons at the age of eleven at the cadet schools in Plön and Berlin , he embarked on a military career. In 1873, at the age of 16, he volunteered for the cavalry , where he became an ensign and was commanded as Ulan to Züllichau . His older brother Hanns von Zobeltitz , also a writer, was a role model for him.

In 1880 he resigned and returned home. For several years he worked as a manager on his father's Spiegelberg estate. During this time, Zobeltitz wrote regularly for, among others, New Military Papers and Die Unteroffizierszeitung , which he also edited in 1880/81. In Berlin he became editor of the Deutsches Familienblatt , temporarily edited the features pages of the Deutsches Tageblatt and the Täliche Rundschau and was editor-in-chief of the Illustrierte Frauenzeitung from 1888 to 1891 . From the beginning of the 1890s he wrote for three decades with great regularity for the features section of the Hamburger Nachrichten , reporting on the current court, social and cultural life in Berlin. He published a selection of these features in 1922 under the title “Chronicle of Society under the Last Empire” (Volume 1: 1894–1901; Volume 2: 1902–1914). To this day, they form a remarkable source of the Wilhelmine era in Berlin.

Back in Berlin in 1882, Zobeltitz began to write novels and dramas in order to earn a living. His novels kept themselves on a humorous level of entertainment: Trivial topics about the life of an officer, noble families, stories of young girls and even knight adventures. From the fees for his literary work and the income from the leased property, von Zobeltitz was able to live well, befitting his class. Von Zobeltitz was meanwhile an integral part of the literary scene in Berlin and known or friends with numerous contemporary authors. In 1888 he was one of the founders of the Berlin Literary Society . From 1893 onwards, Zobeltitz lived again at Gut Spiegelberg for the summer and was mostly only to be found in Berlin during the winter months. These stays were only interrupted by extensive trips through half of Europe .

Even in his time as an ensign, Zobeltitz had developed a pronounced passion for books, especially old books. Now he began "at the end of the eighties to visit diligent auctions." At one of these auctions he met Eduard Grisebach and through him came to bibliophilia. In the following decades Zobeltitz systematically expanded his library and acquired interesting and valuable works at auctions, in second-hand bookshops and from hawkers who roamed the streets of Berlin with their book carts. In 1899, Zobeltitz was one of the founders of the Society of Bibliophiles in Weimar and, as editor, headed the magazine for book lovers , the society's mouthpiece. In 1904 he founded the Leipzig Bibliophile Evening , in 1905 the Berlin Bibliophile Evening . In 1910, Zobeltitz had his first large library auctioned off by his friend Martin Breslauer in Berlin, who offered it in a catalog (2990 items) under the heading: “Catalog of a valuable castle library from known property and some other articles, mainly containing works by the German Literature of the 18th and 19th centuries in first, later and complete editions; including an unusually extensive Goethe and Schiller collection. Also knight and robber novels, Münchhausiaden, Galante Adventure, Robinsonaden and a rich association of bibliographical, bibliophile and art history works in fine copies. ”The second library from Zobeltitz was bought by the German Reich and in 1921 as a reparation for the city of Löwen, which was burned down by German troops in 1914 submitted. The Zobeltitz library was set up as a separate collection in the university library there.

Hamburg-Süd passenger steamer "Cap Trafalgar" in spring 1914

In addition to his passion for books, Zobeltitz really enjoyed traveling. His travels took him to Africa, Asia and Latin America. From March 10 to April 30, 1914, he traveled on the maiden voyage of the Hamburg-Süd passenger liner Cap Trafalgar from Hamburg to Buenos Aires . He accompanied Prince Heinrich of Prussia and his wife Irene, who were on a goodwill tour. From Buenos Aires, Zobeltitz accompanied the couple by train to Santiago de Chile , where the admiral met German naval members of the detached division of the Imperial Navy . When the Cap Trafalgar was sunk as an auxiliary cruiser in World War I , Zobeltitz published his travel memories in 1915 under the title "Cap Trafalgar. A German auxiliary cruiser luck and end".

During the war in 1914, as Johanniter, he was involved in the invasion of German troops into neutral Belgium, which was included in the attack on France through the Schlieffen Plan .

Fedor von Zobeltitz was married to Klara Auguste, née Hackenthal (1857–1928); the marriage was divorced. His second marriage was with Martha Tützer (1872–1949). The painter Heinz von Zobeltitz (1890–1936) came from the first marriage, the journalist and writer Hilde Stein-von Zobeltitz (1895–1963) was a daughter of the second marriage. She was married to the writer Fritz Stein. The nephew Hans-Caspar von Zobeltitz was also a well-known writer and wrote a private print about Uncle Fedor in 1927.

Wilmersdorf cemetery in Berlin; Urn grave of Fedor von Zobeltitz

Shortly before his death, Fedor von Zobeltitz wrote his autobiography I have so gladly lived , which appeared [posthumously] in 1934, the year of his death. His urn grave is located in the cloister of the Wilmersdorf municipal cemetery , wall B, niche 123.

Fedor von Zobeltitz also published under the pseudonym F. Gruenewald .

In December 1936 a street in Berlin-Reinickendorf was named after him Zobeltitzstraße .

In 1953 his work was Die von Schebitz. History of a noble family in the year of the revolution (Ullstein 1920) in the GDR placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

Works

  • Prince Bismarck. A life picture for the people and the army (1881).
  • Ensign Stories (1881).
  • Flittergold (1888).
  • Up to the desert. Novel from Two Worlds (1892).
  • The Majoratserbe (1893).
  • Without bells. (Drama in five acts, world premiere on February 8, 1894 at the Lessingtheater (Berlin) )
  • Your own blood . Fontane, Berlin 1996. Digitized version of the Internet Archive
  • Under the red eagle. Historical narratives (1896).
  • Foreign goods. In: Library of Entertainment and Knowledge, Volumes 8-13 (1897).
  • The Murdered Forest (1898).
  • The Emperor's Courier (1899) .
  • The intendant (1900).
  • Better master than servant (1900).
  • The power of paper (1902), new edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-7076-0500-6
  • The marriage inn (1907).
  • Letters from German Women (1910).
  • The Battle for Troy (1911).
  • The Trail of the First (1911).
  • Three girls at the spinning wheel (1912).
  • The hunt . Fleischel, Berlin 1913.
  • The second sex . Krabbe, Stuttgart 1913.
  • The book of three hundred thousand . Imberg & Lefson, Berlin 1913.
  • The German brand. Comedy (1914).
  • From deep shaft (1915).
  • Cap Trafalgar. A German auxiliary cruiser Glück und Ende (1915).
  • The hastily married couple (1915).
  • A Johanniter's war journeys with peaceful interludes (1915).
  • Heinz Stirling's Adventure (1915-1916)
  • The Rattle Stork Association (1916).
  • Steppke (1917).
  • The Junkers (1918).
  • The soul bird. The story of a dedication copy (1920).
  • The dethroned in "Selected Novels" (after 1920)
  • Curious story. The fate of a gang of impostors (1921).
  • Chronicle of society under the last empire. 2 volumes Alster-Verlag, Hamburg 1922. Digitized , volume 2 of the Internet Archive
  • The foray of love , Ullstein, Berlin 1922.
  • Wine, woman, song: A wet and happy chat book (1924).
  • The heirs of Gr.-Quirlitz (1928).
  • Four sheets from the “Urfaust”: a bibliophile story (1930).
  • The Troubled Girls (1931).
  • The Larsen Brothers (1933).
  • I loved living so much. Memoirs (1934).

Film adaptations

literature

  • Manfred Hanke: Fedor von Zobeltitz 1857–1934. An attempt on bibliophile exemplary behavior. In: Philobiblon. Volume 36, No. 3, 1992. [Lecture given on September 22, 1990 to the Bibliophile Society in Cologne].
  • Books, collectors, antiquarians. From German auction catalogs , ed. v. Rudolf Adolph. Society of Bibliophiles, Darmstadt 1971.
  • MN [d. i .: Max Niderlechner, Antiquarian]: Memory of Fedor v. Sable seat . - In: Fedor von Zobeltitz. (Berlin, 1934).
  • Of books and people. Festschrift. Fedor von Zobeltitz on October 5, 1927 , ed. v. Conrad Höfer. Society of Bibliophiles, Weimar 1927.

Web links

Wikisource: Fedor von Zobeltitz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry about Zobeltitz in: Richard Wrede, Hans von Reinfels (ed.): Das Geistige Berlin. Volume 1, Storm, Berlin 1897, p. 590.
  2. ↑ a b Fedor von Zobeltitz: I loved living so much. The memories. Ullstein, Berlin 1934, pp. 138f.
  3. ↑ a b Roland Folter: German Poet and Germanist Libraries. A critical bibliography of their catalogs. Eggert, Stuttgart 1975, p. 215.
  4. ^ Siegfried Weiss: Desired career art. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Munich Maximiliansgymnasium from 1849 to 1918. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, pp. 272–273.
  5. ^ Emil Weller : Lexicon Pseudonymorum. Reprint. Georg Olms Verlag, 1977, ISBN 3-487-00414-3 , p. 239.
  6. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Mende (ed.); Christian Böttger: Lexicon of all Berlin streets and squares. Verlag Neues Leben, Edition Luisenstadt, 1998, ISBN 3-355-01491-5 .
  7. ^ List of the literature to be sorted out , Ministry for National Education of the German Democratic Republic, 1953.
  8. ^ The Bibliophile Society in Cologne. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), p. A 353.
personal data
SURNAME Zobeltitz, Fedor from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zobeltitz, Fedor Karl Maria Hermann August von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Spiegelberg Estate , Brandenburg Province
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1934
Place of death Berlin